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Jim Himes: “Oil prices...have almost doubled in the last 40 days.”

Featuring: Jim Himes, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 04:59

Is that really who the United States wants to be? He climbed down. Right. He saw oil prices beginning to rise, by the way. Beginning to rise. You know, they've Oil prices...have almost doubled in the last 40 days. Right. He saw that. You know, the world was going to say this is a catastrophe. So he was just looking for a way to climb down. (04:59–05:55)

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